Python: Couldn't import magic library - python

I'm Python newbie, Recently, I am working a project on JIRA. I need to access JIRA api to retreive some info about issues. But it always indicates as follows:
WARNING: Couldn't import magic library (is libmagic present?) Autodetection of avatar image content types will not work; for create_avatar methods, specify the 'contentType' parameter explicitly.
And in fact, when I download the magic package with easy_install or pip, it always fail.
And then, I download the libmagic and magic package manually, copy them to the directory C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages, but when executing the clause jira = JIRA(), it still produces the warning as mentioned above

If it is asking for magic and libmagic it means libmagic is not installed, not just the python bindings for it. You need to install that via your package manager from your OS.
Also, if you need help, we can't really help you without tracebacks, so if you're getting errors you need to include those.

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RobotFramework - Unable to import RemoteSwingLibrary

Screenshot of error in RobotFramework
Hello, I am trying to use the RemoteSwingLibrary in RobotFramework for testing. Other libraries I have been able to pip install just fine. However, RemoteSwing is not available with pip. I have a jar file of the library in the python27 folder with other libraries and have it explicitly listed in the path variable. Still receiving the error message that it does not see the module. Please advise. Thank you!
As the library is as jar file, Python interpreter with Python will not read it. You need to use Jython(java based python implementation)+Robot instead.
The reason for your issue is that you don't have it in the PYTHONPATH system/user variable.
This you can clearly see in the bug report where is listed.
You can add it to the system variables or use robot with a parameter where the path is specified:
robot --pythonpath c:\python37-32\libs\remoteswinglibrary-2.2.3.jar
btw. The guy from the different answer is absolutely missing the point. This is also part of the instruction for the installation RemoteSwingLibrary for pybot too and the reason for the existence of this project. The manual for installation is here.
You can look also here where is almost the same.

How to use lxml version 3.7.3 on app engine?

On their Built-in Third-party Libraries page, it says that lxml 3.7.3 is supported but I can't seem to find a way to use that.
If I write in app.yaml:
- name: lxml
version: latest
When I log etree.LXML_VERSION inside the app, I get (2, 3, 0, 0).
Setting the version specifically to "3.7.3" (instead of latest) doesn't seem to work. When I try to deploy, gcloud says:
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) An error occurred while parsing file: [... /app.yaml]
lxml version "3.7.3" is not supported, use one of: "2.3", "2.3.5"
in "... app.yaml", line 17, column 1
I have installed lxml locally inside the ./lib folder, but the folder is ignored on deploy.
Am I doing something wrong?
The problems seemed to happen because of an old google cloud sdk.
The sdk was installed using apt-get and somehow it was not getting updated. This also included an older Python SDK
At this moment the latest Python SDK is 1.9.62, I was using 1.9.52.
Updating the sdk seemed to fix the problem
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk
It wouldn't be the 1st time that inconsistencies exist between the documentation, what's included in the cloud SDK, what's included in the GAE language specific SDK and what's actually available on GAE (in production). See, for example, PyCharm - Can't create App Engine Application using DJango.
The deployment error message you got suggests that the 3.7.3 version doesn't actually exist on GAE, despite being marked as available in the documentation.
The lxml library is on the list of a few special libraries which need extra attention. Most likely because they aren't "pure Python code with no C extensions" and thus they can't be included in the SDKs with the other libraries, so they need to be installed separately on your local system. From Using built-in bundled libraries with the local development server (check that entire section for related info):
Many of the built-in libraries provided by the runtime are
automatically available to the local development server. However, the
following built-in libraries must be installed locally before you can
use them with the local development server:
lxml
matplotlib
mysqldb
numpy
PIL
crcmod
pycrypto
Now, if you really want the 3.7.3 version, you may be out of luck: if indeed it's not "pure Python code with no C extensions" then you also won't be able to vendor it into your app either. Still, it's worth a try. A new try, note that you also need to:
take it out of the app.yaml file's libraries: section - you're not requesting a GAE-provided library anymore
complete the entire vendoring in procedure (you didn't mention creating the appengine_config.py file, for example).
If that doesn't work then you'll have to settle for one of the available versions mentioned in the deployment error messages. You'll need to:
add that version to the app.yaml file's libraries: section
install that version on your local system
drop the vendoring in attempt, if you went for it

Pip error when trying to install module

I'm trying to install PyDrive [a wrapper library of the google drive api for python] and pip is giving me this error. It did the same thing when trying to install things like matplotlib or mega.py [a mega.nz api for python].
Here's the error:
Anyone got a clue what's going on?
Cheers
You could try renaming that pip.py to something else.
There is a library called pip somewhere on your system (and it may also be bundled within pip.exe). That is different from the "entry point" script that actually runs pip from the command line. When you run pip, it will try to import the library called pip. If there is a script called pip.py in the Scripts directory (representing the entry-point script, not the library), it may import that instead of the real library. If this is indeed the problem, renaming pip.py to something else will remove the name conflict and allow pip to properly import the library it needs.
I'm not sure how you wound up with pip.py in your Scripts directory in the first place. I don't think it should be there. My Python installation on Windows doesn't have it.

ImportError: Permission Denied while using LXML

I've been having a ton of trouble using LXML, after installing it from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.2.1 using Easy_Install-2.7. I installed it on Windows using cygwin, and at first the package seemed to be okay. However upon further testing I ran into problems.
When I run code with:
import lxml
it works completely fine. But as soon as I try:
import lxml.etree
I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Nick_Code\NewsScraper\testdummy.py", line 7, in <module>
import lxml.etree
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml-3.2.0-py2.7-cygwin-1.7.20-i686.egg/lxml/etree.py", line 7, in <module>
__bootstrap__()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml-3.2.0-py2.7-cygwin-1.7.20-i686.egg/lxml/etree.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
imp.load_dynamic(__name__,__file__)
ImportError: Permission denied
I've been trying to find information/work arounds for quite a while but no success. Please let me know if you have any insight or need information.
Thanks!
Michael
This is not a solid answer. But I will highlight several of the problems involved for obtaining a solution. Most likely the problem above, is like a cancer caused by several factors acting catastrophically together.
I have the same exact problem as in the OP, when attempting to use the native Cygwin supplied Python packages on my Windows Vista machine. Being new to Python I have spent several days in trying to get this to work, and understand why it is not working. But all my Google-fu returned nothing but countless dead ends. So here's my take on this.
There are many reasons why Python could have trouble under Cygwin, some which you can do something about and some which are beyond most peoples control. What it boils down to, are the following key issues:
Windows is a complete mess when it comes to file permissions, and Cygwin cannot handle windows file permissions very well. So what you see in Cygwin is far from the whole story.
Windows is shamefully character case-independent which causes loads of trouble, especially when you need to (cross)compile anything that was originally developed under *nix based system (i.e. everything). In fact, if you attempt extracting any archive that contains files whose names differ only in capitalization. (I.e. "makefile" vs "Makefile" etc.) files under Windows or Cygwin, you loose all but one of the files. in case their You need to enable case-sensitivity to do anything more than "hello world" *nix compilations.
Windows handles symlinks completely different than Cygwin. And if your ZIP, TAR etc. archives contain any symlinks, they will be broken after extraction to Windows environment.
Sloppy code practices, where developer have not properly tested their creations on various environments, or carefully set proper file permissions to their *.tar.gz collections. Including correct dependency specifications, or mentioning whether or not binaries has been statically linked etc.
For the full gory details and further (Win-Cygwin) issues, look HERE.
At first I tried to use Cygwin's own Python without any additional packages, and nstalling lxml using PIP and easy_install. Then I tried to use Cygwin's own libxml2, libxslt and xml python packages, and I had the same problems.
At first, after installing the static windows binaries (as suggested elsewhere),
I got this error:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml-3.2.4-py2.7-cygwin-1.7.24-i686.egg/lxml/etree.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
imp.load_dynamic(__name__,__file__)
ImportError: Permission denied
Aborted (core dumped)
Then I investigated the file permissions and changed those with: chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/python2.7/
I got one step further to isolate problem to an apparently missing file.
And enabling verbose and diagnostic mode's didn't help much either.
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml-3.2.4-py2.7-cygwin-1.7.24-i686.egg/lxml/etree.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
imp.load_dynamic(__name__,__file__)
ImportError: No such file or directory
Aborted (core dumped)
HERE is the exact statement specification:
Load and initialize a module implemented as a dynamically loadable shared
library and return its module object. If the module was already initialized, it
will be initialized again. Re-initialization involves copying the __dict__
attribute of the cached instance of the module over the value used in the module
cached in sys.modules. The pathname argument must point to the shared library.
The name argument is used to construct the name of the initialization function:
an external C function called initname() in the shared library is called. The
optional file argument is ignored. (Note: using shared libraries is highly
system dependent, and not all systems support it.)
So I started reading on the lxml website which clearly state lxml's dependencies on both libxml2 and libxslt, and unless they are statically linked, they also depend on iconv and zlib. So you're lead to believe you need to install all of these. Don't! Continue reading. But if you're going to build from sources (as easy_install may try to do) you'll need everything, including the development header libraries: libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel. Another place states that you also need Cython and install with:
easy_install lxml==dev
The dependencies are shown in this picture from HERE:
So you think you may get away with something like:
STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml
But that doesn't do it either. Probably because the libraries used to compile Cygwin's Python have to be the same as those for compiling lxml. But I don't know. Notice how the lxml package refers to Cygwin "1.7.24". My Cygwin is already "1.7.25" and you can check this with uname -a. Then you can check your static python executable with file and ldd. Then you understand that this also depend on the C-compiler used for building python/cygwin under Windows or *nix. Smelling a nightmare I decided that building my own was not the way to go. So next I tried to install the Python libraries (supplied as
executables) meant for Windows Python. This didn't work since I never had windows native Python installed, and I was greeted with an error that the installed could not find Python in my registry. I could of course just extract the executable, but I wouldn't know where to put the binaries without the installer. So I had another idea...
There are 3 possible solutions to getting this to work, as far as I can see.
The easy way of installing a Windows native Python interpreter. You loose some native Cygwin functionality, unless you install in correct place: /usr/lib/python2.7 and make sure Cygwin can find it and use it. This also uses a different file-permissions, case-sensitivity and character set (UTF-16LE) than Cygwin (UTF-8), potentially creating many other issues down the line! Difficulty: Easy
Continue hacking the Cygwin's Python, to make it work with the binary libraries used in (1). But this requires:
a) Uninstall and remove all Cygwin Python packages, except bare Python interpreter.
b) Remove all PIP and easy install traces.
c) Hacking the Windows registry to pretend to have Python27 installed:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.7\InstallPath C:\Python27\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.7\PythonPath C:\Python27\Lib;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Lib\lib-tk
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT...
d) Install the Windows binary libraries.
e) All the rest should now hopefully work with PIP or easy_install. Difficulty: Medium!
Doing it properly by compiling Python and all libraries from scratch. Difficulty: Hard!
I successfully did (1), but I still think (2) is the smarter way of doing it, but I have not tested it, which is why I don't consider this as a good answer. BTW. One more quirk, I have to run the interpreter with: python.exe -E to avoid an annoying: "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" when hitting return!
Conclusion:
Apparently, you don't need the libxml2 and libxslt python packages to use lxml!
In my case I needed Scrapy, so I also had to install a few other packages.
$ pip.exe list
cssselect (0.9.1)
lxml (3.2.4)
pip (1.4.1)
pyOpenSSL (0.11)
pywin32 (218)
queuelib (1.1.1)
Scrapy (0.20.0)
setuptools (1.4.1)
six (1.4.1)
Twisted (13.2.0)
w3lib (1.5)
zope.interface (4.0.5)
$ll /cygdrive/c/Python27/Lib/site-packages/
adodbapi
cssselect
isapi
lxml
OpenSSL
pip
pythonwin
pywin32_system32
queuelib
scrapy
twisted
w3lib
win32
win32com
win32comext
zope
cssselect-0.9.1-py2.7.egg-info
lxml-3.2.4-py2.7.egg-info
pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info
queuelib-1.1.1-py2.7.egg-info
Scrapy-0.20.0-py2.7.egg-info
six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info
Twisted-13.2.0-py2.7.egg-info
w3lib-1.5-py2.7.egg-info
zope.interface-4.0.5-py2.7.egg-info
PyWin32.chm
setuptools-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
pyOpenSSL-0.11-py2.7.egg-info
pywin32-218-py2.7.egg-info
easy-install.pth
pywin32.pth
setuptools.pth
zope.interface-4.0.5-py2.7-nspkg.pth
pythoncom.py
six.py
pythoncom.pyc
six.pyc
pythoncom.pyo
pywin32.version.txt
README.txt
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How do I find out what Python libraries are installed on my Mac?

I'm just starting out with Python, and have found out that I can import various libraries. How do I find out what libraries exist on my Mac that I can import? How do I find out what functions they include?
I seem to remember using some web server type thing to browse through local help files, but I may have imagined that!
From the Python REPL (the command-line interpreter / Read-Eval-Print-Loop), type help("modules") to see a list of all your available libs.
Then to see functions within a module, do help("posix"), for example. If you haven't imported the library yet, you have to put quotes around the library's name.
For the web server, you can run the pydoc module that is included in the python distribution as a script:
python /path/to/pydoc.py -p 1234
where 1234 is the port you want the server to run at. You can then visit http://localhost:1234/ and browse the documentation.
Every standard python distribution has these libraries, which cover most of what you will need in a project.
In case you need to find out if a library exists at runtime, you do it like this
try:
import ObscureModule
except ImportError:
print "you need to install ObscureModule"
sys.exit(1) # or something like that
You can install another library: yolk.
yolk is a python package manager and will show you everything you have added via pypi. But it will also show you site-packages added through whatever local package manager you run.
just run the Python interpeter and type the command
import "lib_name"
if it gives an error, you don't have the lib installed...else you are good to go
On Leopard, depending on the python package you're using and the version number, the modules can be found in /Library/Python:
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
or in /Library/Frameworks
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.6/site-packages
(it could also be 3.0 or whatever version)...
I guess it is quite the same with Tiger
Considering that in every operating system most of python's packages are installed using 'pip' (see pip documentation) you can also use the command 'pip freeze' on a terminal to print a list of all the packages you have installed through it.
Other tools like 'homebrew' for macOS (used when for some reason you can't install a package using pip) have similar commands, in this specific case 'brew list'.

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